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      Brilliant staff led by short-sighted management - Anonymous employee SPANA Employee Review

      3.0
      Sep 29, 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Dutiful HR team care about staff concerns. Knowledgeable, passionate colleagues. Inspirational colleagues working with animals abroad in developing countries.

      Cons

      Chief Exec should have retired a long time ago. Ultimate Trumpian narcissist who can probably name only 10 people in the organisation. Period of intense and unnecessary head office spending (including recruitment, expensive adverts and long-haul traveling) up to 2019 added to the massive and short-sighted redundancies when COVID hit. SMT claimed 'streamlining' SPANA was the intention all along (despite hiring many new employees up until Covid). SPANA's audience reach will be significantly reduced as a result of the decreased fundraising and comms spending. Fundraising room is very silent and unsociable. The five year plan in 2015 was to double the core countries we worked in. By early 2020 we had decreased by two countries.

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      Thank you for your review. We appreciate the time around our organisational restructure was incredibly difficult for all concerned. But the process has secured the charity’s long-term future and will ensure the charity can continue to support working animals and the poverty-stricken communities that depend on them. If you wish to discuss any of your feedback further, please feel free to email our HR team (in complete confidence) at hr@spana.org

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      4.0
      Feb 8, 2024
      Anonymous contractor
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      Pros

      A strong foundation of expertise with unique market positioning. Mission driven, dedicated, and passionate staff. The current strategy positions the organisation to transition into an increasingly innovative organisation that will deliver lasting improvements to the lives of working animals.

      Cons

      Business practices in place under the last CEO present ongoing challenges to efficiencies. The current senior leadership is working to modernise and establish new systems to help advance the current strategy and improve efficiencies and effectiveness.

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      May 13, 2026
      Manager
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      Interesting work and well paid for the sector

      Cons

      Awful working environment everything had to be agreed with the CEO and was micromanaged - none of the systems and processes worked - staff really unhappy with the toxic working environment

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